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Auk Elk Antler

by Jo Gillot

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    The result of a year-long creative project making art and music for some of the UK's lost species. Some vanished forever, others have since returned or brought back from the brink through reintroduction/rewilding. By writing these songs, I wanted to set their scene and tell their stories but also rewrite and play around with these stories as folktales in their own right. This is only a snippet of the stuff I researched.

    I also made some artwork for each animal which, along with thoughts and lyrics, have been printed into a limited edition booklet. Find it in the Merch bit. Some of the images are available here as bonus items.

    Thank you so much for listening x     ... more
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Auk 02:35
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2.
The View From A Branch Of A Tree 02:21
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3.
Smock 02:02
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4.
Antlers 03:00
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5.
Berry 01:23
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6.
Wolf 04:16
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Auk Lament/ The Beavers 02:17
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The result of a year-long creative project making art and music for some of the UK's lost species. Some vanished forever, others have since returned or brought back from the brink through reintroduction/rewilding. By writing these songs, I wanted to set their scene and tell their stories but also rewrite and play around with these stories as folktales in their own right. This is only a snippet of the stuff I researched.

I also made some artwork for each animal which, along with thoughts and lyrics, have been printed into a limited edition booklet. Find it in the Merch bit. Some of the images are available here as bonus items.

Thank you so much for listening x

credits

released December 2, 2023

Instruments featured:
Guitars, banjo, mandolin, Gillotone, piano, violin, hurdy gurdy, various percussive objects, pots&pans, tin foil, a hairbrush, some conkers

All songs written, recorded and played by Jo

Extra recording on Hope, Lament, and mixing & mastering from the very patient Paul Landon. Thankyou Paul!
Thanks to Harv for being equally patient and being happy to listen to all things at varying stages of completion.
Thanks to Dave for lending me that beautiful hurdy gurdy, and thanks to a nice guy called Pete who finally got the thing working.
Gillotone made by Cam.
Thanks to my Patreon community for supporting this entire project.
If you want to get involved, you could help support my next project at www.patreon.com/crowandapricot

Track 1 features an excerpt from 'An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk According to One Who Saw It' by Jessie Greengrass.
Track 3 inspired by 'Pais Dinogad', an ancient Welsh-Cumbric lullaby, dated c.13th century. Look it up- it's really interesting.

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